Review by JUDITH BOA
This film was painful to sit all the way to the end. Only did so a I was with a group of people. So boring.
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This film was painful to sit all the way to the end. Only did so a I was with a group of people. So boring.
Very good character based British film with excellent actors; hard to go wrong. Mortimer is wonderful in the character of the bookstore owner; played strongly but with subtlety.
The story follows Mortimer who decides to open a bookshop in a small British town where she soon gets as a customer the recluse Nighy who she befriends. Both characters are disliked by the power woman of the area (Clarkson) who also wanted to use the building that the bookshop is in to open an art centre. The film is about these relationships and tensions. The end is a little surprising and rewarding.
Title Statement | The bookshop [DVD] / Greenwich Entertainment, Diagonal Televisio, a Contracorriente Films, Green Films AIE, Zephyr Films ; produced by Jaume Banacolocha, Joan Bas, Adolfo Blanco and Chris Curling ; written and directed by Isabel Coixet. |
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Additional Contributors | Coixet, Isabel |
Mortimer, Emily | |
Nighy, Bill,1949- | |
Clarkson, Patricia | |
Fitzgerald, Penelope | |
Publication | Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment,[2017]©2017 |
Extent of Item | 1 videodisc (113 min.) |
ISBN | (v.r.) |
Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 191329099315 |
Other Number | 3600840 |
General Notes | DVD. Disc label title. Originally released as a motion picture in 2017. Widescreen version. Based on the novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. |
Performance Credits | Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson. |
Audience & Ratings | MPAA rating: PG. |
Languages | English language tracks with English and Spanish language subtitles.SDH (Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) |
System Details | DVD, Dolby digital 5.1 surround. |
Terms of Use | For home use only. |
Summary | "England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop."--www.imdb.com. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Widows--Fiction |
Women booksellers--Fiction | |
Booksellers and bookselling--Fiction--England | |
By Location | East Anglia (England)--Fiction--Social life and customs--20th century |
By Genre | Historical films |
Feature films | |
Films for the hearing impaired |